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might have believed it possible. But three,
and those three No, no, mol IL must
be true. He had caressed his own child.
What step TO take he knew not. Was he
happy or miserable, or both? Joy was
mingled with distress and hopelessness.
She. his wife, welded 10 another-for he
knew his marriage could easily have been
set aside. Here, after years of continued
search, 10 find her thus-beyond his reach.
"My child-for some powerful instinct
tells ;ne she is mine-to be forever with
held from me- q, God, pity me, he cried
out in distress.
How he reached his rooms he hardly
knew.
Arriving there he tried to think of some
course to pursue, but could decide on
nothing.
What could he do? His brain was in a
whirl. He ordered his valet TO have the
groom bring his saddle horse nj once.
AS he stood at the window, waiting for
his orders TO be executed, he saw a party
emerge from the adjoining house, o tall
gentleman. the lady in black, maid, nurse,
aud his child. They entered carriage
and were driven rapidly away.
A maddening thought occurred to him.
They may be taking final leave of the
city.
II must act; something must be done
before it is too late.
He jumped on his horse and followed
the carriage for long distance, and he
saw his worst fears realized.
Their evident destination was the depot,
where they would soon board train that
would bear them swiftly away from his
view forever.
He reins his horse nearer the carriage,
and side by side keeps pace the distance
of a block.
The carriage stops.
lady screams in wild delight.
Laura lie Favre recognizes in him her
long lost husband.
Eugene" comes from her lips.
In an instant he is face TO face with his
loved one-under more perplexing condi-
tons; for he dares not claim her until he
understands the relationship that man by
her side bears toward her.
He is speechless; but she is conscious
of the fact that an explanation must be
made before he dare Claim her.
She quickly introduces her uncle, Lee
land lie Favre, who, she briefly states.
since the death of her father, two years
previous, has been guardian and protector
of her and her child.
90, how l have prayed for this hour"
AT last, said Eugene, II am rewarded.
o, my darling, my two darlings."
The footman takes charge of the saddle
horse, the carriage door is opened, Eugene
enters, and, barring the very Objectionable
presence of witnesses, this is to him like
stepping into heaven.
Little Eugene, with an inherited love
for her father, puts her baby arms around
his neck and calls him papa" He had
never dreamed of this additional joy--that
of finding daughter-their daughter. He
felt amply repaid for all his years of
misery. Her love unchanged-his intensi-
fed! Oh theirs would be undisturbed
bliss through the future.
Each had volumes to relate, and together
they travelled for months enjoying their
second honeymoon. They returned to their
old home in America, and there, on heI
twenty second birthday, they held grand
reunion of old friends, who jovfully con-
graduated them, all agreeing that Truth
is stranger than fiction"
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Pooling the Old Soldier.

1t is touching thing to see an old
soldier hurry up to get around the cor
ner when he hears a bugle call that is
familiar to him. The bugle call excites
him, and he pricks up his ears and
hurries, limping may be, anxious to see
what is going on around the corner.
The bugle rings out the assembly"
for instance, and the old soldier thinks
there is a cavalry company forming
around the corner, and he will be there
to see If they get into position correct
ly. He comes up pulling, his old lame
leg little tired, takes off his hat and
wipes the perspiration of his brow
and looks for the soldiers. When he
sees that the bugle call came from a
perambulating waffle peddler he would
kick himself if his old leg was not
lame. What connection there is be-
tween an army bugle and waffle wag-
on is a mystery. 1t is cruel to fool old
soldiers by playing a cavalry call to col.
lect hungry people around waffle
wagon. Picks Sun.
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station az which the train stopped the brakes
were not thrown of OF one OF the coaches. and
when IL started the coupling broke, which
necessitated sending to Forest TOR another coach.
All these delays threw the train over an hour
late and IL was running at a terrific speed To
make up for lost time Mr.. Murphy says the
was too slow. When Mr.. Murphy and his wife
stepped on the train they entered the second
car from the sleeper but hnding no two seats
together unoccupied they went forward two
cars further ana tried u get seats in IL They
failed, and 10 this failure they owe their lives.
ms every one in that car was killed. Returning
20 the car which they first entered, they found
two seats which had been turned SO as 70 face
each other which were occupied by ,. Har-
ter and wife. OF Peoria. On expressing wish
10 occupy one OF these seats Mr.. Harter at once
c0urteously complied and they sat down and
were chatting pleasantly up TO the time OF the
disaster These seats were in the rear, ana OF
the whole party occupying the car about forty
FIVE, only fve were saved-Mr. Murphy and
wife, Mr.. Harter and wife, and one other, I'M
known. The first intmation OF the disaster
was a humping sound, followed almost imme-
dately by sound resembling the Kissing OF
steam, caused by the cars sliding over each
other. The next minute passed as though IN
n dream, Mr.. Murphy waking up TO nnd that
he was badly bruised and that the car was in
ruins. There were few groans, as nearly all
were killed as quickly as though struck by
lightning. The roof of the car had fallen in
with the exception OF the little corner occu-
pied by the party alluded to. In that corner,
for some reason, il was still hanging but vibra-
ting back and forth as though il might fall at
any moment. A bright light shone in through
the roofiess caused by the fire on the bridge
and probably from the reflection from the loco
motive headlight, and Mrs. Murphy exclaimed,
NY God The train Is on fire. Mr.. Murphy,
whose shirt was covered with blood, realized
for the first time that he was badly hurt. Dir.
Harter Mt once kicked out q window, crawled
through and was followed by his wife. The
light by this time had gone down, and in the
midst Of the almost Egyptian darkness that
through the window and stood on the outside,
when he realized that he was at a considerable
height from the ground. How far he did not
know. but he told his wife he would jump aud.
if he could safely, for her to follow. He then
leaped into the unknown distance, found IL
about nine feet. encouraged his wife TO do the
same, and being a strong, stalwart man, was
able TO catch her in his arms and hold her.
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MOONLIGHT.

The moon has risen from her downy couch
That overlooks the glimmering eastern sea;
And now she pours her radiance softly down
Upon each river hill, and dowy lea
Upon the grim and rugged mountain side
She paints with skillful touch n picture fair.
That seems 10 shift like transformation scenes,
And in its place rise others yet more rare.
Her light falls gently on the somber lake,
As IL to WOO the lilies on its breast;
And they would think il day and bloom again,
That she might gaze on their white loneliness.
Her rays seek vainly to oercome the gloom
OF forest shade, where hide the modest
ferns
Where myrtle creeps among the clammy moss,
And ivy twInes, and red-eyed fox-hre burns.
On yonder church-y yard her bright rays stream
down,
And touch the nameless mounds with tender
grace;
But whore huge slab marks the proud mans
grave,
A shadow falls across his resting place.
But now she hides her face behind n cloud,
And those fair visions fade before my sight
And all the earth, and all the sky and sea,
Is plunged again in darker gloomier night.
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Evils Of Hotel Life.

Ex-senator Roscoe Conkling is very
seldom seen around public places now
adays. Particularly is this the case at
night time. He has great dread of
visiting hotel corridors, where he was
once such a conspicuous figure. / saw
him in the Hoffman House a few days
ago for the first time in many months,
and he had no sooner made his appear
ance than he was surrounded by a
group of admirers. He took particu-
lar pains to let it be known that he
was there upon business, and that had
it not been of most urgent character
he would have avoided it, as it brought
him to place that he held in absolute
adherence.
1T will seem strange, gentlemen"
he said, that /, who have been in pub
lie life so long, should say that / hate
to be seen in this public place, but it
is fact. | think that any man who
will keep out of these places, except
when he has business, will be much
happier. slike to see man hang
ing around these public resorts, for it
creates the impression that he has moth
ing better to do"
Here he raised his hat and brushed
back his Hyperion curl, which is a
favorite habit of his, and turned to q
well-known character who is always
conspicuous about the hotel corridors,
and said in half joking manner: II
am ashamed of you. Why are You not
good like me? Get a room in quiet
neighborhood instead of fooling away
your time around here-read or do
something that is useful. Nothing
hurts a man more in the eyes of busi-
ness men than being continually before
the public gaze. If you would once
follow my example yor would learn
that this hotel life is miserable one. I"
The ex-senator again paused to toy
with his Hyperion curl and then alb
ruptly added: Goodnight, gentlemen !;
| have been here too long already" and
beat hasty retreat.
could not help bordering over what
l had heard Mr.. Conkling say, and the
more / did so the more was impressed
with the wisdom of his remarks. -
Brooklyn Times.
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laundering the Dead.

Mrs. Charles Carlton. of Oneida, one OF the
survivors, corroborated tho stories OF robberies
committed and says that there were instances
in which the vandals cut of the fingers or inn
prisoned women TO secure the rings. -Four men
are stated TO have swarmed to the front i'm
mediately after the disaster, and To have en-
gagged in the awful sacrilege OF stripping the
desolats dead under cover of darkness and con-
fusion. That such impious pillage prevailed IL
not TO be donied Mr. II. ID. Gould, General
Freight and Passenger Agent OF the road,
caught one OF the devils in the act and kicked
desst Another scouudrsl caught in the
act said be was merely securing memento
OF the wreck j. ID. McFadden, one OF Pc
orias dead, robbed OF 500. Mrs. Deal 3
rings were stripped from her fingers. Mrs.
Potthoff, OF Thir4 street, was robbed, though
unhurt l.. d. Weinettes pockets were turned
inside out when his body was found and his
watch and 80 were gone The wife of Capt.
Dalke, the harbor master, swears that her hus-
band was stripped Of SI,755, and there are
other cases. The entire Zimmerman family,
three in number. were robbed.
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A Chicago Mans Thrilling Experience.

Thomas Trimm Chicago commercial trav-
eler, tells the following story L was sitting on
the coal-box in the rear OF the fifth coach back
of the baggage-car, and the first warning had
of the accident was cracking sound from the
front and realized at once that there W As trou
BILE. In a moment the car | was in began to
sink and jumped for the strap that holds the
bell-cord, but missed it and at that moment
the car was telescaped The lights went out
and instantly found myself wedged in as in a
wise between the door of the car at my back and
car-seats, irons, beams, sticks, and heap OF
humanity, dead and alive, all around me. |
soon found that my legs were wedged in so that
/ could not get out. / was not hurt, and began
TO feel around near me to learn what was hold
ing my legs 1t was very DARK, and could not
see anything.
MY chin was resting on top OF dead woman
and all around me were the bleeding dead and
wounded. Under my right arm was man
struggling and crying for help but in short
time 1 knew that he was dead. The ain was
filled with the most melancholy and heart
rending cries, some calling out the names OF
loved ones, either in the wreck or left at home.
ana others begging for aid. For three hours
remained in that fix, and to add 10 the other
horrors OF the situation could smell smoke
and see blaze and sparks, and Of course
thought the cars were afire, and believed that IL
aid did not come soon We would be roasted.
The dread Of being wedged in there, with all
my senses retained, and having fire slowly
creeping upon me 10 surely roast me was too
horrible to be told-it must be experienced to
be fully realized.
AT first when learned that was not Sc
riously injured had hopes OF getting out
sooner or later, but when / turned my head
and. looking out saw sparks nay heart sank
and longed for my gun that when the fire
would be too close 10 be bearable could end
my life. tried 10 get my posket-knfe out TO
use il 1 found that / was TO be roasted. but
could not get into my pocket Great beads Of
sweat ran down my face. bnt my mouth aud
tongue were parched. Every one and every
thing in our car confined i'm space about
ten feet square, and about two-thirds OF those
in the car were killed outright. while all We're
injured more or less / was the least hurt OF
any in tho car Many men were Offering gold
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The Mysterious Suicide.

Inquiries regarding the identity of the man
who shot himself to be rid Of his agony are
without avail The best information concern
ing him was obtained Sunday from man from
I.acon, Ill =, Mr. T.. Wadsworth He was "A pas
senger n one Of the sleerers. i was awak-
ened," he said by bump as was thrown
against the end of the berth. and Of course was
assist the wounded. heard cries in the field,
and going To the source found young man OF
about twenty whose leg was SO lrOken that the
DoIe prOtruded and whose cries of agony were
dreadful. | went TO him, and he said he had
got out Of wrecked car himself and crawled
TO where he then was got u mattress and
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Mr.. Church,. Experience.

Mr.. z. G. Church, commercial traveller for
n New York hardware house, relates many i'm
oidents OF the disaster. "a friend and my self,
said he thought we would take run over,
but we never expected 70 see what we after
ward did.
-At Chatsworth there was row OF dead
bodies living side by side spop the depot pat
form. A piece OF paper pinned 70 the breast
gave the name OF each one. The first body we
came to was that OF n Chicago drummer, whose
name can't remember, but lie was running
for n large wholesale grocery house here. We
had met him the day before, and afterward
learned that he got on the excursion train az a
little town above Peoria, Intending TO save
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in grief could give them. They lay in the muddy
fields all night with the rain beating down.
while their groans and cries went up in vain
As fast as baggage could be taken from the
cars no matter whose il was. it was torn open,
and dresses and shirts Appropriated for
bnndages to dress the wounds OF the suffering
After the physicians and nurses had finished
with the trunks thieves rihed them and carried
of what was valuable.
q myself, said Mr.. Church, saw the head
shoulders. and arms OF young woman hang
ing from car window, and man went up and
began stripping the rings from her dead fingers.
Some OF the passengers interfered and made
Inaiaf
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The Company Blamed.

On all sides, too, the railroad officials are
blamed for the accident. 1t is charged that
the inspection OF the road was neglected, and
this in face of the fact that il was about to
send train OF unusual length and weight over
the line. People think that the officials should
not have been content with the ordinary and
regular inspection OF the track and its sup
ports. Knowing that hundreds OF souls were
about to 90 over it's line in one long train il Is
argued that more than usually careful inves-
tigation OF the track should have been made.
Again, the company is charged with almost
lowing train of such length to go over the
line loaded to its full capacity with human
hnirn
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4 Thrilling story.

Mrs. Welsh, the Peoria law librarian, tells a
thrilling tale. she says that when the chair
coaches telescoped she was thrown forward,
fiat. She could neither move nor speak her
hands were outstretched, and she lay perfectly
conscious for several hours upon her face. The
awful weight Of n beam crushed her chest
against the rubbish beneath, and when the re-
lief party reached her she given up for
dead. The groans Of the dying filled her soul
with untold horror and anguish, and the shrieks
pierced every hber within her. one man
seized her ankles and tugged furiously to get
her out and gave it up. She heard him
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Shocking Incidents.

Both Mr. Kirk and Mr. Wadsworth relate
many shocking incidents of the work OF rescu-
ing which came under their observation The
latter tells Of finding q woman of singular
hard hood who was caught III the tender close
to the engine. Both legs were crushed, but she
managed TO sit up, ana watched and advised
the men who were saving the timbers to re-
lease her Ia the end of one car where Mr..
Kirk worked among the bodies no less than
twenty-nine dead were taken out This car
had gone inside another car and its occupants
had all been jamu el together at one end. The
car Of superintendent Armstrong was in the
thick OF the wreck and was crushed to pieces,
vet none OF its occupants were injured beyond
scratches This Is accounted for 10y the cir
cumstance that there was little in the car TO
hurt any one Its slight contents did not
make crush so grinding and close that escape
was unlikely.
MIR. Divine. Of Ellenyille n. Y, was in the
second sleeper from the front. He saw much
of the tragedy and his account is graphic. Il
had not retired, said no, when the first shock
came. l had Just taken the button from nay
collar and was gong forward with my UNI
dressing whom felt the car culver and divin-
oil az once that there was collision. drop
ped Hat in the alley, and was scarcely Jared.
The shock over, got mp and went 20 the front
OF the car. whore the first thing that caught my
eye was the burning culvert called all the
men in the car 20 turn out as quickly as pos
sible 20 aid those in the wrecked day coaches,
and advised all tie ladies 70 dress them
selves. as IL might not be possible 70 move
the sleeper ia the case OF the fire extending.
All this time from the moment OF the col
! lison, the cries OF the wounded care
back in perfect roar. got into
one car and found the little snedaker boy,
| whose leg has since been amputated. next
| found little Bertha Blandin, whose mother was
/ killed The first thing the little one did when
lifted her was to beg me 70 ma her inhnlna'
| and promised to do so, though was hopeless
as could soc three dead women in the car.
| then stumbled upon woman whose legs were
| twisted together in the timbers, though they
| did not seem to be broken. l leaned her back
| against a cushion while | helped a boy out,
| and when turned back TO release her she was
dead I subsequently found that my sleeves
were bloodied when / had reached my arm
around her neck To- raise her ana suppose her
| head must have been crushed, though did not
/ notice IT, There was simply no end TO such
scenes and such experiences.
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time by making another place that side OF
Chatsworth. But he went to sleep, passing the
place where he was to get OFF. not being wax
ened, until by the accident he was killed out
right.
when we reached the place whore the acct
dent occurred, the first thing We was n pile
pole. The top Of the second chair-car shot up
on top OF this standing like monument at
least fifteen feet higher We arrived just in
time to Mr.. Murphy. n hotel-keeper from
Galesburg. climb out OF a hole in the top OF the
first cBair-car, which was just in view, upon a
pile OF broken timber at the top Of the heap
He pulled out his wife and baby, uniniured
but almost exhausted from having been penned
up for nearly twelve hours IL was with great
difficulty they were assisted To the ground
Mr.. Murphy then went back into the hole and
brought out alive little baby. He had torn
IL from the arms Of a dead mother. After that
he helped out an aged woman whose back had
been injured. These five. together with two
others, were all that were rescued from that car.
when the hotel-keeper came down asked
him how IL happened that he was not killed,
He replied that when the crash came his wife
was sitting in one seat and himself and the
baby were in the one just behind, near the
front OF the car. The baby was knocked of the
seat and he stopped to pick her up they shot
into the mass OF ruins ahead. Just at that
moment, he said, a timber penetrated the car,
shooting across the place whore he had been
sitting and struck young lady who sat oppo-
site i'm the neck He was thus pinned down by
the timber, which also protected him from
being smashed and saved his life He looked
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say: u can't get her. but she ia dead any,
way," as he dropped her foot and passed on Co
relieve those screaming for help. Then another
man came by and grasped the ladys wrist, but
he also gave up the task as hopeless attempt
to secure n corpse, and it was not until Mrs.
WEIGH lived through hours OF mental anguish
and several more unsuccessful attempts were
made on her behalf that she was eventually
liberated. And yet this lady is but slightly
injured. though Frustrated with the trials OF
her imprisonment. Her experience is but a
simple, abbreviated prelude to the long list in
tho ms estrom of horrors that wiring the hearts
OF the people with Woe
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The RAILROAD DISASTER.
Scenes and Incidents of the
Terrible Wreck at Chats
worth, Illinois.
Miraculous Escapes and Awful
Experiences of Surviving
Passengers.
laundering the Dead-The Rail
road Company Bitterly
Censured.
At the Scene of the Wreck.

close inspection OF the wreck causes one TO
wonder how a single person escaped death.
The momentum of the train must have been
appalling The cars not only telescoped but in
some cases We're crushed down into the earth
On the flooring OF one car the bulkhead OF the
rear car had torn the boards up for u distance
OF ten feet Iron work had been torn and
twisted TO a formess mass, and chairs, parti-
tions, and stoves crushed into fragments. II
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1T is common practice in France
to coat the beams, the joists and the
under side of the flooring of buildings
with thick coating of lime wash as a
safeguard against fire. IL is proven
tive of prime ignition, although it will
not check q fire when once under head
way.
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81 DECLARE, Charley" exclaimed Glare,
"you take the words right out of my
MONTH" "Oh, mammal piped in the little
pitcher, nov know what Glare and Char
lev were doing when she let him in!'
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"wALK slower, papa" cried the little
girl, whose short steps were no match
for those % her masculine proeenitor.
Cant you go nice and slow like police
mani"